Can you tell me about high school?

[gingersmom]

My daughter is doing 7th/8th grade and next year will begin 9th grade in some subjects. I am not 100% sure she will homeschool through high school although I am hopeful.

My daughter is an ice skater and skates about 15-20 hours/week.

I was talking to some other skater moms who have kids who have just begun high school. And they were saying their kids have so much homework during the week and even weekends that their kids have had to significantly cut back on skating.

We skate from 6:30-8:30am most mornings.

Is homeschool high school as homework intensive as public school do you think?

I always find that we work in a much more efficient manner than public schools and so are able to have more free time for fun things like skating.

[K-FL]

It doesn't have to be, depending on your dd & your curriculum choices. You won't be wasting all that class time for crowd control, etc so your efficiency it much greater (as you mentioned), plus you only do the classes you think are important. FL public hs can either do 24 credits over 4 yrs or 18 credits over 3 yrs, but the min. required to get into U. of FL is 16 credits. Huge range! Just take the 16 req. classes, spread over 4 yrs & you have plenty of time for skating.

[Julie in MN]

I think you're right. Your dd will have much more skating time as well as resting time if she homeschools.

I started my homeschooling venture with a 10th grader, so I would be more scared to teach a 1st grader to read than to homeschool a high schooler :)

My dd was a skater for a short while, and there almost always was a "break room" of some sort, with kids doing schoolwork. So your dd's schoolwork could even be done during some of her down time, especially at competitions & such.

Go for it!
Julie

[JennW in SoCal]

My oldest ds was very involved in theater. The other homeschool moms and I always quietly agreed that we were so thankful that our kids didn't have to be at school at 7:30am after a late night of rehearsals, or that our kids weren't having to keep up with homework during those times of long rehearsals. Homeschooling high school gave him the flexibility to focus on theater and all his related interests.

If you spend some time searching through this board you can get a sense of all the different ways people approach homeschooling high school. Homeschooling is more efficient, even though the workload is more time intensive. You have the option of schooling year round if you find you don't have enough time during the regular school year.

[AnitaMcC]

My daughter is doing 7th/8th grade and next year will begin 9th grade in some subjects. I am not 100% sure she will homeschool through high school although I am hopeful.

My daughter is an ice skater and skates about 15-20 hours/week.

I was talking to some other skater moms who have kids who have just begun high school. And they were saying their kids have so much homework during the week and even weekends that their kids have had to significantly cut back on skating.

We skate from 6:30-8:30am most mornings.

Is homeschool high school as homework intensive as public school do you think?

I always find that we work in a much more efficient manner than public schools and so are able to have more free time for fun things like skating.

For my Dd... homeschooling is what makes it possible for her to continue her interests.

She studies Kung Fu and competes at tournaments. She also studies music and takes lessons for guitar, percussion, and piano, does Civil Air Patrol and Confirmation classes. So she is very busy-LOL.

She finds homeschooling is much more time efficient. Often she completes her day's worth of school work in 4-5 hrs. She is doing Langauge Arts, World History/Lit, Algebra 2, Italian, Health/PE for now.

One of the other great thing about homeschooling our twins for high school is that we can go to the tournaments without worrying about school schedules, being absent from school, making up the missed work, etc. We just plan our school days around the tournaments. I try to give her a break from school work when she has tournaments.

[danielle]

No athlete!, but dd practices her instrument about 15-20 hours a week, in addition to orchestra and private lessons. She does math, combined history/literature, French, Latin, science, and AP comparative politics. The AP is overkill, but that's my kid.

There's less busy work and meaningless assignments in home schooling. I just heard from a friend that her 8th grader had to write a 40 page paper. C'mon!
Danielle